#uhhh!!!! :3c

[sasster]

Hard Work (Pays Off)

Well it was about time we got down to business, wasn't it?

[doc]

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“Playtime is over,” the voice of his deity broadcasts directly into his mind, sharp and angry in a way that is almost incomprehensible. “Get me the boy.”

Then the presence is gone.

Persep lulls his head back and forth, searching for a good crack in his neck as he stands from the desk. He casually wipes a bit of black ichor that starts to seep out from his eyes off of his cheek. Across the room his human companion, more like immortal babysitter, tuts softly and shakes his head before producing a brightly colored handkerchief to dab away the same discharge from his face.

“I warned you,” Jarvis chides, “His patience had to run thin eventually, though I admit it took longer than expected.”

“Must be that soft spot for Lycaons.”

"Must be." Jarvis stands and cracks his back, quirking a brow at him. "I hope there's actually a plan in that handsome head of yours, Poppet. He hasn't the tolerance for failure, even from you."

“Worry not my friend, I’ve thought it all through.”

–

The pair come up on the hive with its sprawling garden and moss that hugs up the side of it in practically no time at all, the entire time Jarvis would continue to poke and prod at his charge for his imminent failure, saying this or that about how fun it’ll be to spend the rest of eternity tied together as Agents of Thazilis.

Persep never bothers telling him a second time that it is all planned out, and eternal servitude was never on the itinerary. Exploiting a blindspot to the hive's souped up security system, he leads Jarvis to the expansive lake and accompanying forested area at the rear of the hive and then, much to the immortal’s surprise and annoyance, takes a seat behind the trees.

“What are you doing?”

“Our god's bidding?” Persep feigns incredulity, as he puts a stick of gum in his mouth and offers the pack up to him. “It’s lavender.”

"Mm. Keep this up and we're both in for it. Quite like my head where it's at, thanks."

“Trust me.”

Jarvis slaps the pack out of his hand with a curl of his lip, but with no choice, he slumps beside the clown.

"Only an imbecile would take you at your word, Poppet."

Persep grins.

–

Several uneventful hours pass with the two of them sitting among the weeds as different residents of the hive enter and exit their stakeout area before anything interesting happens.

Jarvis already found something else to occupy his attention by the time the third human to walk out there was not the one they were looking for or the kind he uses for his own personal fun, he lays back fully with a handful of leaves slowly but surely turning into small weaved basket in his attempt to stifle his boredom.

Persep says nothing when their mark meanders onto the scene.

Blue hair pushed back by a purple headband, a face that says he is fed up with the world, and the most identifying marker, sigils of Thazilis, the same ones Jarvis sports, peppered along the back of his neck.

What an easy runaway to find.

The unfortunate boy walks over to the lake and sits at the edge with a foot dangling over it.

Persep pulls himself to his feet, a smug grin on his face as he watches his prey swing his foot idly over the water, and casually starts his walk toward him.

There are a lot of things to be said about Persep Lycaon.

He is a monster, he is cruel, and everything he has ever done has only ever been in the interest of furthering his own goals.

His steps hold no urgency, he saunters on casually.

There has never been a single person, troll, human, or otherwise that he has ever considered to be his equal.

He is narcissistic.

He has a god complex.

But above all else, Persep Lycaon has never played fair.

“Hey Zeke!” He calls out, projecting his voice in a way that even calls the attention of his indisposed custodian. Not just in volume, but the pure joy that replaces the usual calm cadence of his intonation. “What’s up?”

Zeke’s head snaps up at the sound, and at the same time, Persep activates his voodoos.

They make eye contact.

Zeke wordlessly pulls himself up to his feet and starts walking in his direction.

“Atta boy, you really are helping me out here. In a big way.” Persep coos, uncharacteristically. 

There is a bit of a delay, however, a lag in Perseps commands and how his new puppet responds to them. It might be that Zeke’s access to divinity, as much as he’s had, makes him more resistant to the power. 

Better beat a hasty retreat, in that case.

“Thazilis has missed you something awful.”

Persep returns to his companion in good spirits, smug satisfaction rolls off of him in waves.

Jarvis stands and stretches, his leaf basket abandoned in favor of inspecting the shell that toddles behind the purple blood.

“Color me impressed, Poppet.” He breathes, ghosting a hand over the marks that decorate Zeke’s neck. “You did something right.”

“Naturally.”

Momentarily Zeke rips apart from Persep’s control, regaining enough of his own agency to lean away from the touch and just let out a blood curdling scream, at the top of his lungs. His words are intelligible, but cause the Agents to flinch back and cover their ears.

How annoying Divine Intervention can be, a splitting headache begins to drape over Persep’s mind.

Just as soon as the yelling starts it is over and Zekes falls silent again, this time with his mouth clamped shut.

“How irritating,” Persep grits and reaches over to flick his forehead. “No more of that.”

“Consider the compliment rescinded.” Jarvis says, propping his hands on his hips.

“Do you know how many Gods are swimming around in there? Give me some credit.”

They are not afforded the opportunity to really get into the argument, when a great beam of light appears in the back door of the hive. The light’s vague person shape causes Jarvis’s eyes to widen. Persep hardly reacts, leaning forward to pick up both the pack of gum and the abandoned leaf basket.

“Jarvis,”

“Poppet?”

“It has truly been a pleasure working with you,” Persep looks up from where he leans over and Jarvis makes the same mistake as Zeke, looking directly into his purple glowing eyes. “But someone has to take the fall for this.”

His tone is apologetic, purely theatrical, and Jarvis falls silent the same way that the other puppeted human did.

“I figure it goes like this – Diollea will busy himself with you while I find a way to break Ezekiel here of that divine hold of his.” He straightens out and pats the immortal on the cheek. “I’ll come back and get you. I promise.” He says and turns to walk deeper into the forest while Jarvis starts walking to surrender himself to the glowing God.

[cheriboms]

everybody was very nice on my last post(s) so !!! more cole and manfred be upon you :D

[madamemiz]

yknow what ok i'm gonna post this separately for posterity bc i like how it turned out. based on @xmajordumps shitpost:

[faefraud]

can’t believe I touched myself to sukuna smut n I got all sappy n wet. What a fuckin loser

[your-official-gingerartist]

Two Christmas kisses??🥰😳

I wanted to join in on the fun 👉👈 seeing others draw their f/os getting a lil Christmas themed kiss. But I get kiss from my boys!! :3c

[cherry-bomb-ships]

Something so so so special about the trope of a group of characters that are a Team. Even when every character has a distinct personality, they still can't be separated from the idea of their Team, and no matter who the most popular is, each member of the Team has a fan following, and everyone who enjoys that media can list their favorite member of the Team. I love it so much I love Teams of characters

[cobaltfluff]

happy crossover christmas to me !!! left: crossover / right: AU :3c

[komashkathesilly]

wherever theyre going i hope theyre having a great time

[detco-hell]

[ episode 467 - The Unsmashable Snowman]

[piningpercussionist]

Oh! Fucking. Duh. Obvious Roxie post I can make today: here's an emote I made for the sp:te server! (With variants of different degrees of completion...)

I was gonna go back and shade the comic colors Roxie but. Just ended up going w the colors picked off the screenshot. This screenshot, specifically!

[offorestsongs]

lil concept for the Victor Frankenstein-inspired OC i've been working on

his name is Mortimer von Albrecht and he's the saddest wettest most pathetic piece of cardboard to ever exist <3 anemic king ✌️

[pocket-ghostie]

Ok, I knew that Buff Studio already had plans for Charlie in Underworld when making Underworld Office (bc of conext clues), but I didn't know HOW MUCH they knew what they were planing when they made the first game!!!!! Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!

(Spoilers for UwO/CiU)

First, in chapter 4, early sleep, right before Eugene gets kicked out, Boss says "I hope I never see you again."

This implies several things, Boss hopes Eugene lives a long life and/or when they die they can immediately go to 'the other side'. This also implies that Boss can't leave. Because of the door that he is in charge of guarding, he can never leave. Of course, at the end of Charlie in Underworld the door gets destroyed so Boss could leave (after a lot of work). However in this game, Boss doesn't know that's going to happen. He is under the assumption that he is going to stay in the office forever.

Furthermore, in the Peace Somewhere Beyond ending, Eugene mentions that Boss might never find peace.

This could also be because he can't leave due to the door. Although it could be argued that Eugene mentions this because Boss will never be bright, I disagree due to the end of Charlie in Underworld. Boss clearly has a desire to right his wrongs and be bright, however he can't because his duty is to protect the door. So, because of what happens in the Peace Somewhere Beyond ending, Charlie in Underworld doesn’t happen in that timeline, and the door is probably never destroyed. Which keeps Boss guarding the door forever. The door is never mentioned in Underworld Office as an obligation for Boss, as that is only revealed at the end of Charlie in Underworld. However there is plenty of evidence that the writers were thinking about this connection while making this game.

In addition, Charlie gets sealed, leading to the beginning of Charlie in Underworld. Obviously, this is a rather basic connection. However, there is more to it. They could have had Charlie escape or get torn into pieces, without Eugene interfering and letting Joan deal with Charlie. This would get rid of Charlie and give Eugene the opportunity to get Joans help and be able to call the cane later on, because Joan wouldn’t be mad at Eugene. But, Charlie was sealed so that the Office ghosts could easily get to them. It also allows and gives a reason for Charlie to lose their memories, so that the player can slowly learn about Charlie throughout the plot. Because Charlie was sealed, we got the beginning of Charlie in Underworld.

Also, I saw a post in the Underworld Office tag (idk how I would find it now) that said “Eugene choose to be a dark ghost” and it came with this image:

When I was first playing through the game, I thought this was just a fun design choice, and it might be. But if Buff Studios was already thinking about the plot of the second game and how ghosts actually work, this may be a nod to that. This could be refuted with the argument that Eugene thought he was doing good and should be a bright ghost, however this brings up several problems. First off, Buff Studios wanted to keep the conflict of how ghosts work for the second game, and also Eugene did think what he was doing was wrong. They justified it in their head because Jack was a murderer, but I guarantee that Eugene still thought that murder was bad. In fact, Eugene wanted to stop Jack in part because he was a murderer. So it would make sense for Eugene to be a dark ghost, along with the fact that Susans desire for vengeance was still in the area too.

Next, we have the fact that Boss didn’t explain how ghosts work in the beginning of the game. It was River who explained to Eugene how things work. While giving this explanation, Boss stayed silent. This could hint that Boss already knew how ghosts actually work and was staying silent in the beginning of the game. Although this can be refuted with the fact that in the second to last chapter in Charlie in Underworld, Eugene states that Boss has been getting darker because of his guilt of keeping this secret. Which means that Eugene had to have already seen Boss before to tell that he was getting darker. But since Boss got attached to Eugene, he may have felt more guilty about keeping everything a secret. Thus, making him darker when Eugene was around. Although this is an interesting theory, I disagree with it. I think Boss figured out how things actually worked either in between the two games, or the beginning of Charlie in Underworld when Charlie is unsealed. Despite this however, Boss most likely still had an idea that ghosts did not work the way he thought. I believe the fact that River explained everything rather than Boss was very intentional, and an important fact when thinking about Charlie in Underworld.

Finally, all the ghosts have images of when they were alive. At the end of every chapter, there is an image that goes along with it. (Like this one)

I believe this image changes depending on what choices are made. Some of these images show the ghosts when they were alive. Like Hayden playing with a cat, or Joan with her gun and in her soldier outfit. Through these images, it is clear that Buff Studios already planned out the ghosts' backstories. They already had their backstories planned, but they did not say anything about them. This is because they go into the ghosts' pasts in Charlie in Underworld. Further proving that they had already planned what they were going to do in the second game, and were planning on making a second game.

In conclusion, these were all the things that I found in the first game. All of these little details show how Buff Studios was already thinking about Charlie in Underworld when making the first game. They put so much thought into these games, how they would work, the worldbuilding, and the characters. Because of their care and passion for these games, it makes their world feel so real.

[scatterpatter]

I think Zero should let the original Wily Bots go Maverick. As a treat.

[omophagic-beast]

a little preview of what im currently working on :3c its abt open heart surgery as sex and also being transgender and while laying it out just now i accidentally put in the wrong picture and thought "ah wait no thats the sexy dissection thats for later"

[angelinvasion1]

ddlc doodles. all of these r kinda inside jokes, except for the monika ones

[uhuhuhfizz]

rewatching scott pilgrim vs the world , i love this stupid twink [guess which one]